6/25: persisting

...or trying to persist through an awkward day.  Nothing bad happened, but the heat and my migraine are lingering, and I got very itchy for a chunk of hours until an antihistamine took the edge off.  I had a hard time settling into anything.  But I got some mail ready, read some of Maggie Su's Blob (a kind of Pygmalion story), listened to the rest of Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland, made crumpets (but sort of messed them up), did some Heron Tree work, tried to write about Gender Swapped Greek Myths, and exercised on our indoor machines (treadmill, rower, sitting elliptical).